Bihar Mixed Quiz: Set 6

The Kahalgaon super thermal power station, run by NTPC, stands at Kahalgaon on the Ganga in Bhagalpur district of eastern Bihar, close to the coal routes from the Jharkhand and Bengal fields and to the river that supplies its cooling water.

Work on the Sone began in the colonial period with an anicut across the river at Dehri in Rohtas district, and the system has been extended ever since, the Indrapuri barrage replacing the old anicut in 1968.

Makhana is the puffed seed of the gorgon nut plant, grown in the shallow ponds of Darbhanga, Madhubani, Saharsa and Katihar, and almost all the makhana of the country comes from this part of Bihar.

Coal, iron ore, manganese, limestone and water lie close together there, so the country's iron and steel plants crowded into it: Jamshedpur, Bokaro, Burnpur and Durgapur on its edges and Rourkela just beyond.

Barauni in Begusarai district grew into an industrial centre around its oil refinery and fertiliser works, and the thermal station built there in the early decades after independence was the first large generating station of the state.

The Bhimbandh sanctuary lies in the Kharagpur hills of Munger district and is famous for the hot springs that bubble out of its forest, the best known of them giving the place its name; pilgrims and visitors come for the water, which is believed to cure skin ailments.

Banjari lies in Rohtas district, where the Kaimur hills carry the limestone that the cement works uses, and the same district once held the large paper and chemical complex of Dalmianagar.

The Shahi litchi of Muzaffarpur and the neighbouring districts of north Bihar is known for its thin skin, small stone and high juice content, it received a geographical indication tag in 2018, and Muzaffarpur is called the litchi capital of the country and houses the National Research Centre on Litchi.

Bhartiya Rail Bijlee Company Limited was formed as a joint venture between NTPC and the Ministry of Railways to build a coal fired station at Nabinagar in Aurangabad district, with most of its power dedicated to the traction and other needs of the railways.

A chaur, also called a maun, is a shallow saucer-shaped depression in the north Bihar plain, left behind when a silt-laden river abandons a channel and raises the land around it.

The factory at Madhepura builds high powered electric locomotives for Indian Railways and is the largest new industrial unit in the north east of the state.

The sanctuary was notified in 1991 along a stretch of about sixty kilometres of the Ganga between Sultanganj and Kahalgaon in Bhagalpur district.

The Bansagar dam was built on the Son in Shahdol district of Madhya Pradesh, and because the river flows on into Uttar Pradesh and then joins the Ganga in Bihar, the three states signed an agreement to share its water and its cost.

The Valmiki Tiger Reserve lies in West Champaran district, along the Nepal border at the foot of the Shivaliks, and it is the only tiger reserve in Bihar.

The wet alluvium and the long warm monsoon of the north eastern districts, above all Katihar, Purnia and Araria, suit jute, and Bihar has long been the second largest producer of the fibre in the country after West Bengal.

Dehri on Sone lies in Rohtas district, and the Indrapuri barrage was built there in place of the old anicut, being completed in 1968.

Bihar lies close to the coalfields of Jharkhand and West Bengal, and its large stations at Kahalgaon, Barh, Nabinagar, Barauni and Muzaffarpur all burn coal.

The company was registered in that year at Sakchi, the village on the Subarnarekha that grew into Jamshedpur, and the site was chosen for the iron ore, coal and water around it.

The Gandak rises in the Nepal Himalaya, where it is called the Narayani or the Sapta Gandaki, enters India at Valmiki Nagar in West Champaran and flows south east across north Bihar to join the Ganga opposite Patna, near Sonpur and Hajipur.

It is a great oxbow lake left behind by a shifting channel of the Burhi Gandak, one of the largest freshwater wetlands of the Ganga plain, and it fills every winter with migratory ducks, geese and waders while also supporting fishing and singhara cultivation by the villages around it.